Freightliner has announced an agreement with rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook. The deal will see the intermodal rail freight operation acquire 150 brand-new intermodal wagons.
US rail intermodal volume fell 6.5% in November 2025, year-on-year, according to the latest monthly analysis from the American Association of Railroads.
The situation has prompted carriers to alter schedules and, in at least one prominent case, to re-route calls to neighbouring English port Southampton.
England’s eastern counties need a viable mixed traffic railway to foster economic growth. That was the message from Transport East’s “Future of Rail” day conference…
Britain’s rail freight sector runs on a strategy that is almost a decade old. The Department for Transport’s Rail freight transport strategy, published in 2016,…